ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,654,321, issued on June 16, was assigned to SICK AG (Waldkirch, Germany).
"Method of improving a preplanned movement sequence for the control of a robot" was invented by Patrick Erlewein (Heuweiler, Germany), Christoph Hansen (Hamburg, Germany) and Max Franz (Oberried, Germany).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "For the control of a robot operated as part of a human-robot collaboration, a preplanned movement sequence is provided that comprises a defined movement path along which the robot is to move in order to perform a specific task, and a defined speed development according to which each point of the movement path is associated with a spee...